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[email protected] COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT MULTI-GENRE INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL Milwaukee guitarists awarded fingerstyle honors, recently engaged duo dominates rock Brookfield, WI (August 19, 2019) Hailing from 50 cities around the world, 15 of the next generation of guitar greats were announced as winners of the seventh annual international Wilson Center Guitar Festival (Guitar Festival) on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Newly expanded this year to five genres—Blues, Classical, Fingerstyle, Jazz, and Rock—the three-day Guitar Festival welcomed a total of 61 semi-finalists to the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts (Wilson Center) in Brookfield, Wisconsin, from August 15-17, for a chance at their share of $40,000 in cash prizes and a performance at Milwaukee Irish Fest. From a record-setting pool of more than 120 YouTube preliminary round applications, a jury of independent guitar professionals in each of the five genres selected the semi-finalists who were invited to compete at the Wilson Center. On-site judging for the semi-final and final competition rounds was “blind,” with judges located behind a screen. For the list of 2019 competition judges, please visit www.wilson-center.com/2019-guitar- festival-judges. “Over the seven-year history of the Festival, more than 500 guitarists have applied from more than 30 countries